Programmes

Until 2016, we supported programmes in the fields of sustainable development, education & integration, and health and disability. In 2017, we reframed our strategic vision in order to align our philanthropic endeavours more closely to the identity of Trafigura and leverage the Group’s expertise for a greater impact of our action. We now fund programmes in the fields of social entrepreneurship and clean and safe supply chains.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP – we support programmes

fostering the growth of inclusive and resilient economies through innovative solutions;

boosting sustainable and fair employment.

CLEAN & SAFE SUPPLY CHAIN – we support programmes

Enhancing livelihood of population impacted by logistic activities through access to market, health services, education and last mile coverage

Mitigating environmental and social issues caused by transportation or infrastructure at land and sea

The growing Indian paper industry has generated a great internal demand for raw material. Sustainable Agro International (SAI) has seized the opportunity to transform this demand into a solution to help small farmers improve their livelihoods with an innovative agro-forestry model.

The Business Strengthening programme promoted by the Fundaciòn Carvajal enhances the opportunities of microentrepreneurs from vulnerable areas of Buenaventura, by fostering their entrepreneurial, managerial, and life skills.

The aim of Crescendo con la Musica Foundation is to provide access to music to children living in poverty in Mexico, by offering them the opportunity to possess an instrument and acquire quality musical training.

The Trafigura Foundation is now pleased to support the Cherie Blair Foundation, with a particular focus on advancing women’s businesses in the Palestinian Territories. The project will run for 36 months, from January 2014 to December 2016.

Children from low-income families can become agents for change as they enter Germinare’s education programme. This initiative helps combat inequality by placing vulnerable, talented kids into quality schools.

Founded in 1980, Ashoka is the largest network of social entrepreneurs worldwide. Ashoka provides start-up financing, professional support services and connections to a global network across the business and social sectors.

Aspromin is a Spanish association that supports families and young children with intellectual and functional disabilities. They are now introducing an innovative new solution from the USA to children in Spain.

A Self-Financing Community (SFC) is a group of people who set up a fund to which friends or relatives can contribute, to create a small loan, thus resolving acute economic needs that are not met by formal channels. ACAF is a Spanish structure that regroups such communities.

In Mexico, an organisation for young community builders, or ‘Jovenes Constructores de la Comunidad’, helps marginalised youth reintegrate the community by involving them in municipal construction works.

IECD launched its dynamic ‘Transform’ programme to incubate entrepreneurs entering the food and juice business in Cameroon and the Ivory Coast. The scheme helps young people set up food processing units and trains rural business people.

In 2014, the Trafigura Foundation made a three-year commitment to HBI. We chose a project in a fishing community in San Fernando, La Union. The objective is to improve the health, sanitation, education, and livelihood of local school kids and the surrounding community.

Haciendo Camino, or 'Making the Way' is an organisation that seeks to prevent and eradicate child malnutrition in rural areas of Argentina. In some of these areas 40% of children, on average, are undernourished.

Geneva’s open music conservatory (Conservatoire Populaire de Musique) has been running an orchestra programme in schools in Geneva to awaken children from less privileged backgrounds to classical music.

Eau & Vie works in the Philippines and Bangladesh to distribute affordable and clean running water to urban slum-dwellers, relying on social entrepreneurship to offer innovative solutions and empower these communities.

Eau & Vie works in the Philippines and Bangladesh to distribute affordable and clean running water to urban slum-dwellers, relying on social entrepreneurship to offer innovative solutions and empower these communities.

Domus is a social services non-profit based in Stamford, Connecticut, which runs the Trafigura Work & Learn Centre. Domus’s vision is a world where no child shall be denied hope, love or a fair chance in life.

The Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) is a community-based non-profit organisation that helps young people returning to New Orleans from correctional facilities. YEP runs the new Trafigura Work & Learn Centre.

The New Orleans Center for Creative Arts is Louisiana's arts conservatory for high school students. Its Gateway Project aims to develop and expand learning spaces and open up opportunities to talented low-income students.

We are delighted to be able to help the European Institute for Co-operation and Development (IECD) provide tailor-made training programmes to allow young rural West Africans to reach their full potential.